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PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 東周至春秋時代 青銅罍
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, LEI 來源 :
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, SPRING AND Galerie 41，摩納哥，2006年5月2日
AUTUMN PERIOD
H. 25 cm, 9⅞ in. ; L. 29 cm, 11⅜ in.

PROVENANCE
Galerie 41, Monaco, 2nd May 2006.
Récipient en bronze archaïque, lei, dynastie des Zhou
orientaux, époque des Printemps et Automnes
25 000-35 000 €

The intricate pattern sensitively cast on this piece is 本青銅罍紋飾精細，展示東周銅匠高超造詣。比較另一青銅罍，
extraordinary, showcasing the virtuosity of the casters from 器型相近，三道紋飾亦相近，唯無環耳，1983年河南省光山縣寶
the Eastern Zhou dynasty (770-256 BC). Compare a lei with 相寺孟姬墓出土，圖載蘇芳淑著，《Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes
similar shape and three narrow bands of related delicate in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections》，紐約，1995年，頁205，圖
design, but lacking a pair of ring handles, excavated from 30.1。
the tomb of Lady Meng Ji at Baoxiangsi, Guangshan, Henan 另比一例，1988年陝西太原金勝村出土，現存於山西省考古研
province in 1983, illustrated in Jenny So, Eastern Zhou Ritual 究所，圖載《中國青銅器全集》，卷8，東周2，北京，1995年，
Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 圖版49-50。
1995, p. 205, fig. 30.1.
Related inverted blade motifs can be found on a lei with
designs in larger scale, excavated from Jinsheng cun,
Taiyuan, Shaanxi province in 1988, now in the Shanxi sheng
kaogu yanjiusuo / Research Institute of the Shanxi Province,
illustrated in Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji / A Complete
Collection of Chinese Ancient Bronzes, vol. 8, Eastern Zhou 2,
Beijing, 1995, pls 49-50.

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